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June 15, 2016

Christian Standard Updates News & Updates

Number 100!

By Jim Tune Just over two years ago Mark Taylor asked if I would write for Christian Standard regularly. He offered me the back page and the opportunity to write on a weekly basis online and once a month for the print edition. That”s 450 words, 52 times a year. Occasionally I sail up over the 500-word mark. Brevity is always a tough challenge for me. Mark and I kicked around a couple of possible titles for my column. I submitted four or five suggestions, but we ended up going with Mark”s title: “A Different Tune.” It really is a

July 23, 2008

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Church Leadership Preaching

Spontaneous Combustion and the Weekly Grind

By Mark A. Taylor It”s easy to take for granted the creativity of others, especially those who must produce content on a schedule. Preachers, for example, stand to speak every week, some of them several times every week. Teachers fill class periods, sometimes with the overflow of their study, some of them by reading just ahead of their students in the textbook. Newspaper columnists and magazine writers must achieve a specific word count on deadline. Many who benefit from such output think it comes easily. But Rob Bell, speaking this April at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin